You ever feel like its been years since your last restful, full night of sleep?
Last night my procrastination and Mother Nature teamed up on me to keep me from sleeping. So I was kinda already tired because I'd played a pretty hard soccer game at 3pm (it was really hot in the indoor complex because the weather changed so drastically a couple days ago) and had had trouble falling asleep both of the other weekend nights. So at 6pm I was thinking, "yeah, I'm gonna sleep great tonight" and at 7pm I was ready to turn in. Unfortunately I had put off doing some ASME paperwork (ie. my procrastination) that had to be turned in to my advisor at 11am today, so it was no dice on the going to sleep (besides the fact that as long as my roommate is up and home, I have no chance of falling asleep because she's one of the noisiest people alive). So I eat some dinner and settle down to watch my Sunday night shows with papers spread out all around me on the bed, laptop slightly out of reach on the corner of the bed. So I'm half watching my shows and half talking to people online (some temptations are too hard to resist) and mostly doing my paperwork. I kept getting uncomfortable, and finally I realized (after going down to check) that my roommate had turned the heat down to a point where nothing was going to kick on at all (=stagnant, warm air in my bedroom), so I opened my window for a bit, but that was a little too cold, and would have blown my papers all over. I was worried about my fan doing the same, so I took off my socks and that made me a little less warm. Finished up the paperwork (as far as I could-there were about 10 min of finishing touches to make after asking some questions of my advisor) at 1 or 1:30am, and hit the sack ASAP. I was starting to get a headache and assumed it was from all the paperwork when I was tired and not having eaten all that much during the day. Usually if I have a headache, I can just go to sleep, and when I wake up its gone. At around 2am, I realized this was not your run-of-the-mill headache...it was a sinus headache (Mother Nature). Living in this state is one of the worst things that ever happened to my health and well-being. Anyway, I can't just sleep off a sinus headache. So I get up and check my OTC meds to see what I've got. The only sinus med I have is a non-drowsy formula. I knew that just taking an ibuprofen wouldn't fix me, so I took the non-drowsy. The pain killer kicked in in about 30min and I fell asleep. But only for about 2hrs. Then the non-drowsy took over and I spent the rest of the night waking up every 10-15 minutes to resituate...so THAT was fun. Of course, this happens at the beginning of a week where I plan to work full days (yay for "spring break"...grumble, grumble) and leave for a tiring 4-day drive down and return trip to Memphis where I'm pretty sure I'll be going out with my cousins at least two of the three nights I'm there.
I think I'm ready to go home and get some sleep.
"When he left her behind,it never crossed her mind that
There is no Arizona
No painted desert,no Sedona
If there was a Grand Canyon
She could fill it up with the lies he's told her
But they don't exist,those dreams he sold her
She'll wake up and find
There is no Arizona"
-Jamie O'Neal
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